4 May 2018 - 5:00pm

Despite breaking news of its divestment from the Nautilus deep sea mining project, Anglo-American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, still faces a barrage of criticism over the devastating impacts of its operations worldwide.

27 April 2018 - 12:00pm

Workers on strike at five McDonald’s stores on 1 May after strike ballot returned with over 95 percent support for industrial action.

UK McDonald’s workers went on strike for the first time ever last September. This time, workers in Crayford and Cambridge will be joined by colleagues from three new stores in Manchester and Watford, hometown of McDonald’s Global CEO Steve Easterbrook.

Over 90,000 #McStrike tweets were sent in the week before and after the first McStrike.

In January, McDonalds responded to September’s strike with largest pay increase for a decade.

25 April 2018 - 5:30pm

Francia Marquez of the Process of Black Communities, a long-standing partner of NOMADESC and War on Want, has this week been awarded the world renowned Goldman Environmental Prize for her courageous work defending the ancestral land and human rights of her community in La Toma, Colombia.

23 April 2018 - 5:00pm

HSBC’s annual general meeting on Friday was attended by activists from War on Want and Palestine Solidarity Campaign, asking the bank about its business dealings with companies selling weapons and military equipment to Israel

Over a quarter of questions asked at the AGM were about the bank’s complicity in human rights violations against Palestinians. Several referenced the bank’s criminal complicity in other abuses